Guild Wars 2

jazzllanna.1278:

Yes you can do that with a make over kit. You do not have to change everything and it keeps your settings.

Okay, awesome. Thanks!

Rouven.7409:

There is a little video here, 1:15 in it shows you what it looks like. Don’t know if the extra colours for hair are still available.
http://dulfy.net/2013/02/26/gw2-gathering-storm-patch-total-makeover-kit-new-hair-and-eye-colors/

Yeah, I’ve looked through numerous videos but it’s hard to tell if the window defaults to the character’s current settings because they’re covered in armor so you never get to see them, like at 0:24 – 0:48 in that video.

Before I potentially purchase a hair or makeover kit, I need to know whether the in-game window which allows you to edit your character loads your current appearance. So, for example, if I just want to change the height and absolutely nothing else, can I do that without the game altering small facial details (which I am 100% happy with)?

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find this information anywhere and I don’t want to spend the money or gems if it means having to try and recreate parts of the character that I don’t want to mess with.

Thanks.

Apologies if this is the wrong forum but does anyone happen to know how long the Living Story content from The Razing will continue to be available?

Will it be removed along with the Super Adventure Box or do we have until the end of the whole of Flame and Frost itself?

Thanks.

Yeah, I find there are less lag spikes from large zergs zoning into your view but it feels a bit slower and less responsive overall.

I just found some big T1 battles and even fully lowering the apparent CPU intensive options didn’t do much. Shadows completely off made literally no difference.

Disabling Vsync seems to help a tiny bit but I get screen tearing just by dragging the WvW map around, so it’s not worth it.

Thanks for the responses anyway. Clearly 20-30 fps is the best we can hope for in certain situations so I’ll stick with my current settings.

Since Tuesday’s patch and the changes to character visibility in WvW, my fps generally seems lower than it was previously. To compensate, I am trying to establish which graphical settings affect performance the most in large group fights.

Using an i5 3470 with a HD 6870 and 4GB of RAM at 1920×1080, the auto detect function places almost everything on high, which obviously does not work too well except when roaming the game solo. Prior to the most recent update, my options were set as the following:

Animation – High
Anti-Aliasing – FXAA
Environment – High
LOD Distance – Medium
Reflections – Terrain & Sky
Textures – High
Shadows – Low
Shaders – Medium
Post-Processing – Low
Best Texture Filtering – Enabled
Depth Blur – Disabled
Hi-Res Character Textures – Enabled
Vertical Sync – Enabled

Using these settings now and keeping the character limit and quality to lowest and low respectively, I usually see my framerate fall to 17 and sit around 20. Ideally, I would like to bump this to 30.

Is this actually possible? If so, which options should I be lowering? Or, is it inevitable that in very large fights, a constant 30 fps won’t happen without upgrading to a better CPU?

Thanks.